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NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — The FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating a pilot’s report that he spotted a small unmanned aircraft at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

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The Alitalia pilot told air traffic controllers that he saw the aircraft as he approached the runway at Kennedy at 1:15 p.m. Monday. The pilot said the aircraft was 4 to 5 miles southeast of the airport and was flying at an altitude of about 1,500 feet.

An FBI spokesman says the pilot reported that the aircraft was about 1 meter long.

The pilot can be heard on radio calls captured by LiveATC.net, a website that posts air traffic communications. The pilot said, “We saw a drone, a drone aircraft.”

The FAA says the pilot did not take evasive action and the plane landed safely.

“Sometimes, I see them flying so high,” the shuttle driver told Montone.

Last year, Congress passed a bill that required the FAA to expand U.S. airspace to increased military, commercial and private drone use by 2015. With that the FAA is developing more rules for how increased access to this airspace could be allowed safely.